bbpress 2.0 komt eraan

Binnenkort wordt bbPress 2.0 gereleased. Momenteel wordt er hard gewerkt aan het afronden van deze versie. De bouwers streven ernaar om de lancering gelijktijdig met de release van WordPress 3.2 uit te voeren. bbPress2.0 wordt namelijk (eindelijk) een WordPress plugin. Dit betekent dat je niet meer een complete installatie van bbPress hoeft uit te voeren, maar straks de forumplugin als standaard plugin binnen WordPress kunt activeren. Ook betekent dit dat je geen los ontwerp voor bbPress meer hoeft te hebben, het forum draait binnen je WordPress theme.

Hieronder een overzicht van de verwachte functies binnen bbPress 2.0 (in het Engels afkomstig van bbPress.org):

• Seamless integration with your WordPress site and theme
• Integrated admin interface for forums, topics, and replies
• Split and merge topics within a single forum
• Shortcodes to help you customize where your forums appear
• Currently comes with a child theme of TwentyTen to get you started
• Keep track of changes with topic and reply revisions
• Dashboard widget shows you a shapshot of your forums at a glance
• Automatically creates a new ‘Moderator’ role for your forums
• Mark topics as favorites and view them within your new user profile
• Receive emails when new replies are posted to topics you subscribe to
• Anonymous posting lets you open your community up to the world
• Includes widgets to show latest forum activity
• Comes with an importer to move your existing integrated forums over

• Fully extendable, with actions and hooks where you need them
• Works with Multisite, so you really can have unlimited bbPresses
• Adds no additional database tables through the wonders of post types and taxonomies
• Uses adjustable meta capabilities for letting you scope out users and roles
• Relies on template parts to display themes in pieces that are meant to be overridden
• Fully documented PHP, so your IDE will thank you
• Plays nicely with BuddyPress Forums (full integration/replacement coming soon!)
• Use standard post queries to display custom forum and topic data
• Plays nicely with existing WordPress plugins (especially caching)
• It still uses the same awesome icons made by Ben Dunkle

• The migration tool is completely new, and really needs some in depth testing
• Query counts increase exponentially with hierarchical forums (fix pending)
• It’s possible to orphan topics/replies by deleting its parent forum (fix pending)
• If you have a physical /forums folder, your ‘forums’ slug will not work (needs nag)